CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION by Millard, Kenneth ISBN 0198711786
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[edit] CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION
Acts as a guide to American fiction since 1970, and offers interpretations of more than 30 key texts. This book provides an analysis of American novels, by established writers such as Updike and Roth, and younger writers such as Gish Jen and Sherman Alexie. It is a useful introduction for the undergraduate students of modern American literature.
'Contemporary American Fiction' provides an introduction to American fiction since 1970. Offering substantial and detailed interpretations of more than thirty texts by thirty different writers, Millard combines them in an innovative critical structure designed to promote debates about cultural politics and aesthetic value. The book is the first of its kind to offer a wide-ranging survey of recent developments in the fiction of the United States. Recent novels by established writers such as John Updike and Philip Roth are analysed alongside the fiction of younger writers such as Gish Jen and Sherman Alexie. The books innovative structure encourages new ways of thinking about how American writers might be configured in relation to each other, while still providing an analysis of how contemporary fiction has responded to changes in central areas of American life such as the family, the media, technology and consumerism. Contemporary American Fiction is a substantial critical introduction to some of the most exciting fiction of the last thirty years, an eclectic and thorough advertisement for the extraordinary vitality of American fiction at the end of the twentieth century, and an excellent introduction to the subject for undergraduate students of modern American literature.
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[edit] Title
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION
[edit] Author
Millard, Kenneth
[edit] ISBN
0198711786
[edit] Published
21/09/2000
[edit] Publisher
Oxford University Press
[edit] Binding
paperback
[edit] Retail Price
16.99 (GBP)
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